Internet Pirating of Video Content in Russia

The challenge of Intellectual property rights protection becomes more and more evident each year. While companies like Google and Yandex develop technologies and internet services, it is becoming harder to control that area with current laws and enforcement restrictions, so the Internet-pirating became widespread among users. Therefore, it is crucial to find several factors, which have an impact on a person’s behavior leading to illegal consumption. The understanding of the problem can help the government, firms and authors find new ways of protecting their content and decrease the number of illegal downloads. The proposed research claims to study internet video-pirating, provide a wide review of behavioral and technological factors of illegal consumption and find new ways of fighting the challenge of intellectual property.